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Wish You Were Here

POSTED BY: Jennifer Schmidt | Tue Jul 31st, 2007 1:20 a.m.

Hello Everybody,

Next week, a new collaborative project, "Wish You Were Here", featuring audio greeting cards as sound bites, will be shown at Siggraph in San Diego. I thought I'd share it with you postcard style* * * * J

August 5-9, Siggraph 2007, Guerilla Studio, Sound Lab
San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

WISH YOU WERE HERE , 2007
(Colin Asquith, Terry Nauheim, Jennifer Schmidt)
Collaborative Sound Installation

http://www.jenniferschmidt.com/images/gallery/wywh.html

A site for interactivity and reception, "Wish You Were Here" is a collective soundscape of audio greeting cards meant to be experienced within the hands of participants through physical and aural sampling. Our sounds are of field recordings, fragmented and manipulated to reinterpret the conventional notion of a sentiment in the model of a greeting card. Re-contextualizing recorded material within this format places limits—including time, compression, and availability—while initiating an accessible, portable, and participatory narrative.

Systems of exchange become evident through the selective re-authoring and re-playing of these sounds, quoting a theoretical giver and receiver. Through the opening and closing of cards on display, the gesture of a greeting becomes amplified, defining a space that is, at once, personal and public, intuitive and mechanical.

Installation: pre-recorded audio greeting cards, card display racks, microphones

Artists: Colin Asquith, Terry Nauheim, and Jennifer Schmidt

Link:
http://www.jenniferschmidt.com/images/gallery/wywh.html

Jennifer Schmidt (b. 1975) is a multi-media artist living in Brooklyn, NY, who often works with print media, graphic design, and sound to create sculptural installations, video, and performative gestures. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1999 and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Delaware in 1997; and is Regular Full-time Faculty within the Print Area and Graduate Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Recent exhibitions and screenings include: Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, Sonic Fragments, Princeton University, NJ, International Print Center New York, NY, Volume Gallery, New York, NY, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Canada, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, and Gallery 312, Chicago, IL. Recent curatorial projects include: Event Horizon, Public Art Happening, Boston, MA; Bit Logic, GASP, Boston, MA; Mybrary, BUILD, San Francisco, CA; LINGO, ONI Gallery, Boston, MA; and 13/Proof, Anchor Graphics, Chicago, IL. Recent artist residencies include: Homestead AK, Alaska; Brooklyn Community Access Television/Rotunda Gallery, NY; The Banff Centre, Canada; Elsewhere Artist Collaborative, NC; The Experimental Television Center, NY; Frans Masereel Centre, Belgium; Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, DE; Virginia Center for Creative Art, VA; and Vermont Studio Center, VT. Jennifer Schmidt is a 2007 fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Artists' Books from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and is a 2008 grant recipient from the Puffin Foundation.